Ron Mayer wrote:
Alvaro Herrera wrote:
André Volpato wrote:
The ammount of space saved seems pretty clear to me.
Yeah, zero most of the time due to alignment.
So trading off more I/O for less CPU?
I wonder if for any I/O bound database servers
it might be worth packing tightly rather than
aligning indexes on one-byte data.
The OP didn't say one-byte data, they said one-char data.
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